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license.  You will be unable to edit/add/change your application once it is submitted.

Job Requisition ID:

R00049417

Job Category:

Research

Organization:

SOM-Pediatrics-Hem/Onc Admin

Location/s:

Main Campus Jackson

Job Title:

Grant & Contract - Pediatrics Hematology - PT

Job Summary:

To conduct and coordinate the pre-award planning, organization, and post-award administration of grants and contracts in an assigned area. To develop and administer procedures to ensure grant compliance with regulatory, funding agency, and policy requirements.

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in a related field and two (2) years of related experience or equivalent combination of education/experience.

Certifications, Licenses or Registration Required:  NA

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Knowledge of grant and contract funding policies, procedures, and regulations. Knowledge of federal, state, and local funding sources. Knowledge of budgeting and fiscal management principles and procedures. Verbal and written communication skills. Interpersonal skill to interact with staff and faculty. Skill in the use of personal computers and related software applications.  Ability to develop and produce grants and other proposals. Ability to collect and analyze information. Ability to conduct literature searches.

Responsibilities

• Conducts preliminary fiscal and administrative reviews of grant proposals in consultation with investigators.
• Prepares and compiles all components of each grant submission, ensuring the proposal is formatted, packaged and submitted in accordance with granting agency requirements.
• Compiles and prepares comprehensive budget justifications.
• Monitors and coordinates the administration of post-award grants to ensure grant and contract budgets and administrative policies, procedures and agency requirements are followed and objectives met.
• Interprets and provides advice and guidance to faculty and staff on grant funding polices, regulations, and procedures. Identifies and notifies faculty of potential grant opportunities and sponsor requirements.
• Establishes and maintains databases and files for tracking grant proposals, awards, statistical, and other applicable information; creates and distributes applicable correspondence.
• The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive.  Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Requires occasional working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, occasional travelling to offsite locations, frequent work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, occasional climbing, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional driving, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, frequent reaching, frequent sitting, occasional standing, frequent twisting, and occasional walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)

Time Type:

Part time

FLSA Designation/Job Exempt:

No

Pay Class:

Hourly

FTE %:

40

Work Shift:

Day

Benefits Eligibility:

Grant Funded:

Yes

Job Posting Date:

04/13/2026

Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):

04/17/2026